User guide

Network Infrastructure Manager User Guide B-1
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ISM Provision Rules
Overview
The ISM Provision clients will check device configurations against their own set of rules
and issue errors or warnings whenever the rules are violated. This rule checking occurs
manually whenever you select the Verify Configuration icon or the menu item
Changes>Verify Configuration. This checking occurs automatically when changes are
committed to the ISM Provision server and the option, Verify configuration before
commit, is selected (found at the menu item Tools>Options>Rules Options).
If the verification step finds an error or warning, the Verification panel of the Network
Provision view shows which rules were violated and suggests a possible configuration
change to correct the problem. If you still wish to commit configurations that display
errors or warnings after verification, select the option Allow errors to be committed
from the Rules Options tab of Tools>Options.
When the configurations are committed to the ISM Provision server, the server again
checks the client rules before storing the configurations (unless the Server Rules
Enabled checkbox is not checked, found on the Control tab of the Server
Administration view of NIM), and checks additional server rules. These server rules are
always checked and cannot be disabled.
The rules are listed in the following tables:
• Table B-1: Rules Checked by the NIM client and ISM Provision server
• Table B-2: Rules Checked by the IPSM client and ISM Provision server
• Table B-3: Rules Checked by ISM Provision server